Katy Gallagher (ACT, Australian Labor Party, Minister for the Public Service) Share this | Hansard source

That is my understanding—the issue was first uncovered in 2019. Obviously, we were not in government until 2022, and I did not get the government services portfolio permanently until May this year. Since coming into government and into this position, and being briefed on some of these issues, I have, with Minister Plibersek, pulled together a range of issues. There are issues around legal compliance, and there are issues that can be fixed without amendments to the law and that need to be dealt with, and we are dealing with those. We're also looking at impact on customers as a way of prioritising that. I think in the last estimates we advised the committee there were more than 144 areas that we were working on—this is certainly one of them, and it is being prioritised. But I can only answer for the time I have been in the job. I would say we are holding the portfolio agencies responsible. (Time expired)